° Community Development 589-3095
City of Nashua Planning and Zoning 589-3090
. - oes Building Safe’ 589-3080
Community Development Division Code Enforoenent 589-3100
City Hall, 229 Main Street, PO Box 2019 Cran Programs mission eesnee
Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2019 Transportation 880-0100
www.nashuanh.gov FAX 589-3119
Date: August 7", 2019
To: John Griffin, CFO; Daniel Kooken, Purchasing Manager
From: Sarah Marchant, Director Community Development Division
Re: Contract for Consulting Services for Mine Falls Hydroelectric Facility Licensing and
Compliance Services
The City of Nashua (the City), the licensee of the Mine Falls hydroelectric project, has filed with
the FERC a pre-application document (PAD) to initiate the re-licensing process for this existing
hydroelectric facility. The current FERC license for the Mine Falls project (Project number P-
3442) was issued on August 4, 1983 and will expire on July 31, 2023. The purpose of this
project is to assist the City in obtaining a new FERC license for the Mine Falls project. Resource
agencies, Indian Tribes and other interested parties were afforded the opportunity to request
studies and provide comments on the PAD. A list of requested studies is provided below.
Study Request Requester
1 | Instream Habitat and Bypass Flow Assessment NH Fish and Game and NOAA
2 | Adult Alosine Downstream Passage Assessment and | NH Fish and Game and NOAA
Protection Evaluation
3 | Telemetry Study of Upstream and Downstream NH Fish and Game and NOAA
Migrating Adult American Shad and River Herring to
Assess Passage Routes, Effectiveness and Delays
4 | Impact of Project Operations on Downstream NH Fish and Game and NOAA
Migration of Juvenile Alosines
5 | Downstream American Eel Passage Assessment NH Fish and Game and NOAA
6 | Three Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics NH Fish and Game and NOAA
(CFD) Modeling in the Vicinity of Fishway Entrance
7 | Rare, Endangered and Threatened Mussel Survey NH Fish and Game
8 | Water Quality Study NH DES and NOAA
9 | Bypass Reach Flow Study NH DES
Professional Services provided as part of this contract will encompass the following three
phases:
1. Proposed and Revised Study Plan — Based on the comments/requests provided by State
and Federal agencies on the PAD, a proposed study plan will be developed, including
goals and objectives, study area, background and existing information, project nexus,
detailed study methodologies, analysis and reporting, and schedule and level of effort
for each requested study. The proposed study plan will be submitted to FERC and other
stakeholders for review and comment. This phase will also include meeting with state
